
A fast-paced retro football management game inspired by the 90s. Build your squad, tweak tactics, and watch matches unfold minute-by-minute.
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A fast-paced retro football management game inspired by the 90s. Build your squad, tweak tactics, and watch matches unfold minute-by-minute.

Player's Eleven - A Football Manager Game
No unnecessary complexity, no endless menus: Startelf is a football management game focused on transfers, squad building, and the decisions that truly matter.

Retro Football Boss
Retro Football Boss is a historical football management simulation featuring the English professional leagues from 1888 to 1998 (with German leagues coming soon). This is your chance to take a trip down memory lane or right the wrongs of the past.
No unnecessary complexity, no endless menus: Startelf is a football management game focused on transfers, squad building, and the decisions that truly matter.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 38.2% ★, Sports 26.4%, Management 11%, Simulation 10.1%, Real Time Tactics 9.3%
Retro Football Boss is a historical football management simulation featuring the English professional leagues from 1888 to 1998 (with German leagues coming soon). This is your chance to take a trip down memory lane or right the wrongs of the past.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 53.3% ★, Sports 19.5%, Simulation 13.3%, Management 7.8%, Retro 3%
PIX Football Manager is a nostalgic, casual football management simulator focused on scouting. Set your tactics, find hidden gems, and improve your facilities as you build a dynasty. With no visible player stats, you must spot talent yourself. Grab your clipboard, the game starts now.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 42.2% ★, Sports 20.1%, Simulation 9.5%, Management 8.8%, 1990's 6.6%
Pure football management stripped to its essence. Build your squad, develop talent, and dominate the league. No press conferences, no social media just tactical decisions that matter. Inspired by the golden age of text-based management sims.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 42.6% ★, Sports 18.9%, Simulation 14%, Management 10.2%, Old School 4.6%
In Global Soccer: A Management Game 2018 there are no restrictions, the whole world becomes playable! The 210 playable nations and the 4000+ playable clubs guarantees truly infinite hours to play.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 53.1% ★, Sports 18.7%, Management 11.4%, Simulation 5.6%, Text-Based 3.3%
A futsal management game with a 2D match engine and integrated editor. Can you find the next wonderkid and become the best manager? Proudly open source.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 50.7% ★, Sports 21%, Management 12.6%, Simulation 7%, Tactical 5.4%
You're the manager and it's your team. Play Player's Eleven now! Run the club of your choice or work your way up from the bottom to the top. Extensive editing options available.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 53.6% ★, Sports 19.6%, Management 15.1%, Simulation 11.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Become the president of your club and make decisions that change its destiny. Manage transfers, staff, finances, media, facilities, and the president's personal life in a deep and dynamic football management experience.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 44.6% ★, Sports 29.3%, Simulation 15.2%, Management 10.5%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Step into the dugout and experience the future of football management.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 49% ★, Sports 25.4%, Simulation 11.6%, Management 10%, Strategy 3.6%
This is soccer management like you’ve never experienced it - Be more than just a player, be the head, the heart, and backbone of New Star FC. Be the Manager.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 47.8% ★, Sports 27.4%, Simulation 14.4%, Management 10.4%
The Chairman is a football management sim built that lives in the bottom corner of your screen. Matches simulate automatically while you work, study, or do anything else. Check in when you have a moment. Make your decisions. Let the season run. You choose the time lap.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 41.3% ★, Sports 28.5%, Simulation 12.1%, Management 9.8%, Idler 4.5%
Become the manager of a football team and take full control of your club. Manage scouting, training, facilities, and squad development. Choose your philosophy: focus on coaching and tactics, or invest in developing the next generation of stars. Success depends on your decisions.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 40.7% ★, Sports 27.7%, Simulation 14.5%, Management 7.6%, Tactical 5.1%
Foosball Manager is a table football management sim. Scout, sign, and train your squad. Set your tactics, then call the shots from the sideline as your players act on their own across a physics-driven table. Climb the divisions and become a foosball legend.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 43.1% ★, Sports 28.6%, Simulation 14.3%, Management 10.2%, Strategy 3.6%
The original retro-styled football management game remade and re-released in 2025. It's a faithful recreation of the original groundbreaking 1982 Football Manager, the title that launched the football-management genre!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 49.1% ★, Sports 24.1%, Management 10.1%, Simulation 9.8%, Retro 3%
A data-driven football management simulation where you control every aspect of your club’s journey — from tactics, scouting, and player development to finances, facilities, and legacy. Build your philosophy, shape your destiny, and lead your team to greatness.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 38.6% ★, Sports 24.5%, Simulation 13.2%, Management 11.7%, Text-Based 5.6%
Manage elite football clubs and lead your dream team as a football manager!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 46.2% ★, Sports 15.4%, Management 10.5%, Real Time Tactics 9.9%, Simulation 7.6%
Beyond tactics and transfers, build and run your club as the manager—facility expansion and upgrades, staff, budgets, board relations, and youth recruitment and academy intake.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 47.7% ★, Sports 13.6%, Management 11.9%, Simulation 9.2%, Tactical 6.3%
Multiplayer football management built on fair competition. Outsmart rivals with skill and strategy - no random packs, no pay-to-win gameplay. Take charge of your club, build your squad, and prove yourself on the world stage.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 54.6% ★, Sports 24.2%, Simulation 9.2%, Management 8.6%, Strategy 3.4%
Take charge of your football club in Football Owner 2025! Build your dream team, manage finances, make key transfers, and lead your club to glory. Can you handle the pressure and become the ultimate football owner?
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 38.1% ★, Sports 27.4%, Management 10.8%, Simulation 9.9%, Real Time Tactics 7.7%
With improved playability from previous versions, and ease of use, Premier Manager ‘10 is the ideal game for those who love the high-pressure world of topflight football management. PLEASE NOTE: You will start from the 2009/10 season.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 38.5% ★, Sports 35.8%, Simulation 15.7%, Management 10%
Manage your team in this voxel based football (soccer) management simulator. Make active decisions directly influencing the events in the match. Can you win the league?
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 48.8% ★, Sports 18.2%, Management 11.5%, Simulation 11.3%, Real Time Tactics 5.8%
Manage your football team and take on challenging, realistic tournaments. Develop your squad, trade players, play real-time multiplayer matches, and customize every detail of your club to make it truly unique.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 43% ★, Sports 25.9%, Simulation 13.3%, Management 10.3%, Strategy 3.8%
You are the manager of a football club, determine its future by making the best decisions regarding tactics, training, player contracts, sponsorship deals and infrastructure. Watch your players performing on our amazing 2d match engine.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 36.8% ★, Sports 24.2%, Simulation 12.4%, Real Time Tactics 9.8%, Management 7.2%
Run your own football academy. Scout and discover young talents, evaluate their potential, manage their development through training, and negotiate transfers with clubs to grow your prestige and influence.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 49.1% ★, Sports 19.8%, Management 14.5%, Tactical 6.3%, Simulation 6%
In Noyan: Club Chairman, you’re the president, not the manager. Leave tactics to the coach; your job is to manage finances, lock down sponsors, and win over the fans. Remember: matches are played on the pitch, but the club’s future is won in the presidential office!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 49.2% ★, Sports 21.9%, Management 11.2%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 2.7%
Take control of a Real Football Club or create your own club, in Football Club Manager 2023 a fast-paced Football Club Management Game. Download Football Club Manager 2023 now for FREE & start your Football management journey.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 53.7% ★, Sports 20.2%, Management 11.6%, Simulation 7.6%, Tactical 5.3%
Build your football empire. Scout talent, manage finances, develop tactics and lead your club from obscurity to glory in a deep football management simulation.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 40.9% ★, Sports 26.7%, Simulation 13.7%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 3.9%
Become the manager of a small neighborhood futsal club, recruit players on a tight budget, and build your tactics. Manage morale through team activities, shift the momentum with substitutions and tactical changes in tense text-based matches, and grow your team step by step.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 41.8% ★, Sports 31.4%, Simulation 13.4%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 3.3%
NUTMEG! is a nostalgic football manager game with a deckbuilding twist, set in the '80s and '90s. Relive the days when the tackles were as hard as the mullets were long and football was about football.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 44.4% ★, Sports 15.7%, Simulation 8.6%, Management 8.5%, Old School 5.7%
Boss Of FCs is a text-based game that includes strategy, simulation and football/soccer. You will start on this path with a certain budget and move towards success and wealth by making the right moves. Make the best deals and the best transfers, buy and sell clubs and move towards the top...
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 46.4% ★, Sports 19.6%, Management 12.5%, Simulation 6%, Text-Based 5.8%
A deep football management simulation where you control tactics, transfers, training, and club development. Build your squad, outsmart rivals, and lead your team to glory.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 37.7% ★, Sports 29.7%, Simulation 12.7%, Management 11.6%, Text-Based 4.1%
Lead your football club through national championships and to international stardom. Take over an established men’s or women’s team of your choice as its manager or bring a small team into the big league.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 57.9% ★, Sports 22.5%, Management 8.4%, Simulation 7%, Strategy 2.5%
The World Cup finals are here—are you ready to win it all? Lead 220+ dynamically evolving national teams to glory in this deep soccer simulation. Simulate 40+ global events, from continental cups to the grand stage. Perfect for fans of international football management and endless replayability!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 47.9% ★, Sports 21.5%, Management 11.1%, Simulation 11%, Text-Based 8.1%
Become the best football manager. Join Pro 11 and claim the championship!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 41.5% ★, Sports 34.8%, Simulation 13.2%, Management 5.9%, Strategy 4.5%
Buy, build, and flip football clubs in a fast-paced roguelite management sim. Sign players, hire staff, survive FFP, unlock Club DNA modifiers, and grow club value across 1-2 hour seasonal runs.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 48.5% ★, Sports 23.8%, Management 10.5%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 3.1%
A football management game about building a squad, shaping tactics and surviving dramatic dressing room events where chemistry, results and narrative events decide your fate.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 51.7% ★, Sports 25.2%, Management 10.3%, Tactical 4.1%, Text-Based 3.5%
Manage one of over 1,000 real non-league clubs through the English football pyramid. Day jobs, ground grading, gate receipts, cup runs, and a world where clubs can fold around you. Football management at its most real.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 48.6% ★, Sports 26.5%, Simulation 14.3%, Text-Based 4%, Strategy 3.9%
The auto-run football tournament soccer game. Be the player, be the manager.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 46.4% ★, Sports 29.2%, Simulation 11.9%, Management 8.6%, Strategy 3.9%
Live the life of an up-and-coming superstar in this unique football career game. Start out as a 16 year old lad and work your way to the top to become a footballing legend!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 50.4% ★, Sports 34.3%, Simulation 15.3%
In this classic soccer simulation from 1997, experience fast-paced action with a variety of game modes, from friendlies to seasons. Play with one of 11 national teams, Alan Shearer's hand picked All Star team, or your own custom team. Features motion capture from a young Michael Owen.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 53.3% ★, Sports 26.2%, 1990's 8.8%, Old School 6.7%, Retro 4.8%
Return to the soccer field with your favorite Backyard athletes! The original Backyard Soccer 1998 is back and now enhanced to run on Steam. Build your roster from among the iconic Backyard Kids. Kick, pass, and score in this classic game that made soccer fun for everyone!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 57.6% ★, Sports 29%, Simulation 5.6%, 1990's 5.6%, Retro 2%
Manage your own club in F11 Football Manager. Sign players, upgrade the stadium, negotiate sponsorships and devise tactics to lead your team to glory. Do you have what it takes to be the best football manager?
Why similar: Sports 32.5%, Football (Soccer) 30.4% ★, Simulation 14.3%, Real Time Tactics 11.5%, Management 8.2%
Retro Fútbol is a football management game inspired by the classics of the 1990s. Manage your squad, transfers, tactics, stadium, and finances, and lead your club to the top season after season.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 50.6% ★, Sports 18.3%, Simulation 10.3%, Management 9.7%, 1990's 5.5%
Monster Scout is a soccer scouting game that tests your ability to discern player traits, as stats ARE NOT immediately visible. The fate of your team relies on your judgement. Enjoy the authentic coaching experience.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 45.4% ★, Sports 23.5%, Real Time Tactics 11.9%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 4.6%
Evofoot is a football manager game focused on the strategy and excitement of running a club. Build your team, compete in tournaments, negotiate players and challenge other managers. All with light, straightforward and addictive gameplay — just the way manager fans like it!
Why similar: Sports 32.1%, Football (Soccer) 31.6% ★, Simulation 13.7%, Real Time Tactics 13.1%, Management 7.6%
Take control of a Real Football Club or create your own club, in Club Soccer Director 2022 a fast-paced Football Club Management Game. Download Club Soccer Director 2022 now for FREE & start your Football management journey.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 39.3% ★, Sports 32.1%, Simulation 15.9%, Management 7.8%, Strategy 4.4%
Lords of Football is a whole new sports lifestyle simulator, played in God Mode.The everyday routine of football is brought to life, simulating footballers' training to improve their skills and all the drama and real-life distractions that unfold during a normal season.
Why similar: Sports 39.8%, Football (Soccer) 36.9% ★, Simulation 15.2%, Management 4.2%, Strategy 4%
Football Career Mode 26 is a straightforward football manager game. Choose a club, choose a sponsor and start your football manager career! Lead your club to the top through transfers, scouting, infrastructure updates and much more and win as many titles as possible!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 45% ★, Sports 27.8%, Simulation 12.1%, Management 6.4%, Real Time Tactics 5.7%
Playability is central to the ethos of Premier Manager and 06/07 offers all football fans, young and old, the most accessible entry point to the management genre.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 50.1% ★, Sports 20.9%, Simulation 8.6%, Management 8.5%, Text-Based 5.6%
MicroProse™ Soccer is an accessible and engaging classic soccer game that lets you compete against a friend or CPU opponent at world class level in the World Cup, International Challenge, or in the indoor league.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 57.4% ★, Sports 27.7%, Simulation 9.6%, Retro 5%, Singleplayer 0.3%